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"Young Goodman Brown", by Nathaniel Hawthorne who was known all around the world for the famous book "The Scarlet Letter", is a story that is thick with allegory. ... The protagonist---Goodman Brown is a Puritan minister who lets his excessive pride in himself interferes with his relations with the community after he meets with the devil, and causes him to live the life of an exile in his own community.
"Young Goodman Brown" begins when Faith, Browns wife, asks him not to go on an "errand". Goodman Brown says to his "love" and his "Faith" that "this one night I must tarry away from thee. ... There is a tremendous irony to this promise because when Goodman Brown comes back at dawn; he can no longer look at his wife with the same faith he had before.
When Brown finally meets with the Devil, he declares that the reason he was late was because "Faith kept me back awhile. ... Goodman Brown almost immediately declares he no longer wishes to continue on his errand with the Devil. ...
Brown begins to think to himself about his situation and his pride in himself begins to build. ... As Goodman Brown is feeling good about his strength in resisting the Devil, he hears the voices of the minister and Deacon Gookin. He overhears their conversation and hears them discuss a "goodly young woman to be taken into communion" that evening at that nights meeting and fears that it may be his Faith. When Brown hears this he becomes weak and falls to the ground. ... Brown then hears what he believed to be voices that he has before in the community. Once he begins to doubt whether this is really what he had heard or not, the sound comes to him again and this time it is followed by "one voice, of a young woman". Goodman believes this is Faith and he yells out her name only to be mimicked by the echoes of the forest, as if his calls to Faith were falling on deaf ears.
Approximate Word count = 1631
Approximate Pages = 6.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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